For displaced, misplaced, and nostalgic ex-Bronxites
MYSTERY PHOTO 196
This typical Bronx commercial strip was characterized by some idiosyncratic business names among its shops and features. Do you know this street? And please: memories, yes; guesses, yes; web-sleuthing, no.
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, Temple Adath Israel was recognized relatively quickly by many. Located on 169th Street and the Concourse, the imposing structure was built in 1927 to house a congregation that had grown steadily since its formation in 1896.')){kind=link}
 on Fordham Road and Webster Avenue at some point during their Bronx tenure? Our Bronx detectives identified this building within minutes of its being posted. The building itself has not changed significantly in almost 70 years. For those who were interested for one reason or another in the car on Webster Avenue to the right of the building, it\'s a Chrysler PT Cruiser. The picture was taken in <b>2006</B> (<i>honest!</i>).')){kind=link}
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 guesses at cemeteries, folks finally zeroed in on the source of the gate in this image: the entrance to Bronx Community College (formerly the Bronx campus of NYU).')){kind=link}
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, but many fewer have ever been inside these arched entrance gates.')){kind=link}
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 a busy, congested, commercial strip of endless shops and small businesses.')){kind=link}
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 and two yet to be built (the Bronx County Courthouse and the Earl Theater) managed to keep most people puzzled.')){kind=link}
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 in 1981. However, it was given back its old name in 2011. No other street in the Bronx has experienced a name recycling in this manner.')){kind=link}
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. In this picture, taken in the 1960s, you can see the tracks above the tracks, a rare sight among elevated subway stations.')){kind=link}
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 The unusual name of this street is an homage to Alphonse Fteley, a 19th century President of the American Society of Engineers, designer of the Croton Dam and a member of the team that designed the Panama Canal.')){kind=link}
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 as part of a massive New Deal project, Orchard Beach featured many architectural marvels unusual for a public beach. This circular mosaic sits in the center of the entrance plaza, just north of the massive main pavilion. Millions upon millions of Bronxites have strolled over this spot on their way to a respite from the summer heat and humidity.')){kind=link}
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 did not survive the Bronx blight of the 1970s and was torn down and replaced by a pocket park.')){kind=link}
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 provided a lot of work to improve roads in the Bronx. This 1936 image shows the paving of Eastchester Road between Wilkinson Avenue and Morris Park Road, as farmland yielded to population growth in the east Bronx.')){kind=link}
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. Not long after this 1938 photo was taken, the private homes in the foreground were razed and replaced by a six-story, white-brick apartment building.')){kind=link}
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 in 1930. Taken from Magenta Street between Barnes and Wallace Avenues, the photo looks toward Gun Hill Road from the south. Most Bronx public high schools did not have campus-style grass fields with grandstands such as this but because of its north Bronx location, Evander\'s Tigers were able to enjoy their ample cage')){kind=link}
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 a Kentucky Fried Chicken shop.')){kind=link}
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. Because the older building had windows and fire escapes on all sides, the new building could not abut it as was typical to do with apartment buildings. Instead, that alley was created, and at the other end of the alley Executive Towers would be built about 20 years later.')){kind=link}
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 was very similar to Bronx streets like East Tremont or Castle Hill Avenues, with their amalgam of apartment buildings, stores and private homes.')){kind=link}
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. By the time this photo was taken in 1940, that station had ceased operations.')){kind=link}
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